Because too many people don’t respect their own time and corporations used this + ZIRP to turn the internet into a ad hellscape of conveniences.

“Ai efficiencies will be passed on to the customer!”

Remember this next time billionaires say they’ll happily pay onto UBI or whatever.

exactly. If we can’t practice state policy, how are we suddenly going to pass it federally? State policy gives it precendence and can be a test run for how to do it at a larger scale.

Making the house bigger so each rep covers fewer people is probably good but I doubt it makes bribery unaffordable.

hence why we also need to tax the rich. They never should have gotten that rich to begin with.

It’s losing, in a landslide

according to who?

I’m very confused on what’s happening here. Not that another establishment not-Democrat went full mask off, but of the odd timeline of this.

So this woman lost the primary months ago to Abdul El-Sayed. She stays quiet and/or pushes milquetoast support for the progressive Democrat for those months, even though it’s clear she’s full on AIPAC supported and has a conservative husband.

Then these last few days, well after a lot of Michigan already voted with early polls, she decides “fuck it we ball” and outwardly and directly decides to endorse the GOP candidate on the ballot? Did something happen behind the scenes? Did she have a mental break? The strategy makes no sense from a sabetour perspectives behind the scenes (she went mask off too early… 2 days too early) nor from a campaign perspective (she went mask off WAY too late for it to matter for the GOP candidate). This can’t have been strategic.

She’s sadly not nothing (yet). She still has 2 months in House and there can potentially be some last minute bills she screws over.

in 2 months, sure. She’s nothing and she can fade into history as yet another turncoat in America’s descent into fascism.

Indeed. I don’t know if that’s unique to CA, but it’s an odd phenomenon.

I think your system does work better. As long as judges aren’t going full Clarence Thomas, I generally shouldn’t know the day to day news of a judicial representative. The whole point is to take a non-partisan stance, after all.

Yeah I realized it this election. The primaries was actually very interesting in choices and candidates.

The actual midterm ballot was milquetoast in choices and recommendations. The props were way more interesting than seeing yet another “do I choose moderate democrat who will change npthojg or MAGA republican?”. The last 3 pages was just judges, and not even a choice: just " do you think this judge should retain their position? ".

It’s crazy more people don’t take primaries seriously

All that does involve effort that some may find exhausting, but you did ask what you could do.

Not really, it’s been done. But I’m in one of the bluest areas and it was like speaking to the choir. We had our ICE invasion: not Minneapolis bad but we know how violating it feels. Virtually no one I knows likes what’s happening.

So it didn’t feel like I did that much.

It’s not possible for Valve to solve with the way Valve usually approaches problems. There’s no easy way around it: you gotta scale up and do manual, human review. Algorithms and automation can’t make these judgement calls. It’s gotta be manual, it’s got to be flexible enough to get around trolling and false positives. It won’t be perfect, but no one is asking for perfection. Just a proper store and (if caught as a false positive) a reasonable response time.

That’s corporate speak for “seen ✅”. I know people love Valve, but this is very standard playbook for how they operate in PR. Acknowledge the problem, say they are working on it, maybe in a year or 2 we get a nugget of an attempt to kinda poke at the problem.

Maybe Valve will prove me wrong here since this is ramping up quickly, but this also isn’t anything that will threaten their monopoly in short order. If I was GOG, I’d be taking a hard anti-AI stance between Valve’s timid response and Tim Sweeney’s full on cannonball and reinforce what they already do in curating for handcrafted games.

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And I don’t think the rest of their statement is promising. First part (the title) is irrelevant: you don’t need to gatekeep tools to gatekeep obvious slop copies of games already announced and upcoming on your platform. Let along a bare quality window. Valve did that gatekeeping for the first 60% of its life. Maybe we need that back.

Second part is borderline tonedeaf :

Noting that games were being cloned long before AI came on the scene—just at a much slower pace—Giardino suggested that developers can protect their work by first building a strong community around it, and then focusing on continual improvements: “Rather than relying on a single mechanic that someone can easily copy, you need to keep growing your game by adding features, personality, and creativity that stem from your own perspective.”

So, “yeah just market more and work harder”. The two expensive parts of making a game. From a billion dollar corporation. If any other AAA studio said this it’d be ratio’d to hell.

or do something about it

What can I dom? It’s kind of a trope with millennials at this point that memes are the form of “action” that represents our overall powerlessness to hold such people accountable, despite it being a scandal that redefines the meaning of “watershed moment”.

If diddling kids for decades isn’t enough to enrage a country into burning it down, what is?

1. Wanting to end the penny (still did it illegally)

2. This (pending legality)

No tech bro has tried to sell me ai art. No tech bro is knocking on my door asking me to buy AI music.

I wish it was as easy to point to as that. Instead they are just trying to slowly poison the pool and then claim “see, you’ve been drinking AI the whole time!”

• It pops up in art feeds all the time, and they get offended when called out on it. - It invades any kind of festival you can think of, like hackathons, and they argue with judges over why AI is banned (they just try to sneak it in anyway)
• you’ll see AI fliers for local events and they say “its just a quick ad” when pointed out to, despite these kinds of festivals trying to attract artists (but won’t pay one for a design) .
• and of course, anytime I look into a job, I have to be reminded that “you gotta learn AI, it’s the future! Don’t get left behind” as if my past 10 years of experience is invalidated by a slop generator that wouldn’t survive a QA pass nor art critique (“just wait a few more months!” Said every few months for 4 years).

I sure do wish it was just naive kids gushing over it. Perhaps as someone in the creative field I simply am destined to hear it a lot more since it’s become a trillion dollar racket that the powers that be so desperately want to say works. It’s well past the “I can just ignore this” stage for me.

If you’re arguing for diversity then you shouldn’t mind AI music.

well we come full circle back to the main topic and hit the paradox of tolerance. Someone trying to claim “Spotify, Apple Music, and Streaming in general is over” is not someone trying to embrace diversity and carve out a new road to potentially explore. They are stating an intent to conquer and extinguish.

I don’t have a problem with the concept of AI music, but I do with the kinds of people it seems to attract. So yeah, I can’t really support someone who simply sees art as an algorithm to “solve” and dismisses human made music as “obsolete”.

you should indiscriminately support it through government programs, local initiatives, and places of learning.

I do. But it’s not like I fund all art equally. I play a lot more video games than I listen t soundtracks, and I watch a lot more animation than I do plays. Art is diverse and you pick and choose what to consume or make for yourself.

That’s all I was saying when I said “I wouldn’t call myself a music guy”

There’s other art than music. And genres within music. I wouldn’t call myself a “music guy” but I do support other forms of art.

You say you love the art form but literal artist dying on the vine since the day I was born.

welcome to a niche, I guess. I’m a part of quite a few of those. Turns out my wallet isn’t big enough to carry an industry. or my rent. Sorry bro.

Maybe in another timeline I’m a super rich dude and I can single-handedly support independent art financially.

Also completely misses the entire idea of fucking culture. How do you get a taste in “what you like”? YOU LISTEN TO WHAT OTHERS SHOW YOU!!! That’s culture: SHARED experiences.

Goddamn. The kinds of people rooting for this idea where you only listen to what you like are definitely the same ones who think the best way to meet a date is through as app. The only surprising part is that the silent majority aren’t angry enough to break their apathy yet.

How we describing “significantly” here?